Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore invented linotype
Ottmar Mergenthaler is not known as an author. He was a German-American inventor who developed the Linotype machine, which revolutionized the printing industry by enabling the automated setting of type for newspapers, magazines, and books.
The linotype machine is a typesetting machine that produces lines of metal type for printing. It assembles individual letters and characters into lines of text, casting them into a single piece of metal for use in printing presses. It revolutionized the printing industry by automating the typesetting process.
Depends on the model number. A relatively late (circa 1968) model 31 weighs about 3300 lbs.
John Deere - inventor - was born on 1804-02-07.
Mergenthaler Linotype Company was created in 1886.
The inventor of the first bathyscaphe was a man named Auguste Piccard. He was a physicist and inventor who was born in Switzerland in 1884.
Elijah McCoy, a black inventor, did not invent the washing machine. The modern washing machine was invented by James King in 1851.
Emil Meyer - linotype operator - was born in 1862.
The spaceband is a variable word space used in line typecasting machine to justify a line of type. It consists of a sleeve and a long tapered wedge. Just prior to the of type being cast, the wedge is driven up to equally space the words of the line to a predetermined line length. Spacebands were used on both Linotype and Intertype machines.
Hiram Maxim
Cavemen, the wheel.